The surgeons mate or Military & domestique surgery Discouering faithfully & plainly ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gunshott, and otherwise as namely: wounds, apos fumes, ulcers, fistula's, fractures, dislocations, with ye most easie & safest wayes of amputation or dismembring. The cures of the scuruey, of ye fluxes of ye belly, of ye collicke and iliaca passio, of tenasmus and exitus ani, and of the calenture, with A treatise of ye cure of ye plague. Published for the service of his Ma. tie and of the com:wealth. By John Woodall Mr. in chyrurgerie.

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ENglish honey being yellow, the favour and odour pleasant, sharpe, pure, sincere, clear, fast or stiffe, yeelding little spume in decocting, is good and very profitable for those that are costive, also for the stomack if one drink it with water: it helpeth the bladder and reins: it is good for the eyes: mundifieth, openeth, and healeth. As for burnings and scaldings, it cureth them without scar, and is very good to heal ulcers of the ears; and (saith Dioscorides) drunk with water is wholesome for the belly and stomack (it helpeth such as are pained in the kidnies and bladder. It is also good to anoint the eyes with, to clear the dimnesse of sight in them: it hath an abstergent or cleansing force: it openeth the mouthes of veins, whereby it also draweth out fordid matter or qui••∣tur from fetide ulcers. But the best honey of all other, is that which is gathered in Lituania, a Province of Polonia. where the Bees breed onely in high trees, and gather their honey from a certain flower growing on trees, called in Latine Flos Tiliae or Tili, in the Germane tongue Lind••n holt. This honey is white, hard, and very fragant or odoriferous.